This post explains how to configure Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to both publish and stream applications using HTTP. For the purpose of this document we will be setting up a brand new Windows 2008 R2 server to offer these functions and utilize a Windows 7 App-V client. When choosing HTTP as your choice for streaming,…
Tag: App-V 4.5
Fix: Applications virtualized with Microsoft App-V disappear after enabling drive encryption
Here’s another quick tip on an issue you might run into where an application virtualized with Microsoft App-V may disappear and no longer become streamable after enabling drive encryption on App-V clients. This is due to the drive encryption locking the associated OSD files. If this happens and if the OSD files are not available…
KB2447513: The number of concurrent licenses are not reset when the Application Virtualization Management Server service restarts
Symptoms The Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 Management Server may appear to run out of available licenses and clients may receive the following error: You are not authorized to access this resource. Error code: 0A-20000193 Cause The stored procedure sp_SFTclosesessions in the management server database is used to close orphaned sessions, license sessions, application usage…
Take our survey and let us know how you use Microsoft App-V
The Microsoft App-V Product Team invites you to take a short (10-minute) survey about your use of App-V. Your input will help us improve future versions of the product. If you would like to take the survey, please email app-v@microsoft.com. We will invite qualified individuals by sending them email with a link to the survey….
Sequencing Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with App-V
Since Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 we have heard from numerous customers that they would like to deploy it using App-V. This is not feasible with the shipping products. Microsoft will be releasing updates to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) products so that customers can use App-V to deploy Visual…
Learning about App-V with TechNet Virtual Labs
With the popularity of Microsoft App-V growing like crazy it seems there’s always a fresh stream of folks who are new to the product and looking for some resources to help them get up to speed fast. If this is you, or you just want a refresher to make sure you’re making the most of…
New KB: After upgrading a Microsoft App-V server, client machines may receive 0A-20000194 errors when trying to launch applications
We posted this solution a while back but it’s proven to be so popular that it was converted to an official Knowledge Base article. You can find our original post here but the test of the KB is below: ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: 1. You install the App-v 4.x server and set the…
Additional Considerations When Upgrading an App-V Sequenced Application Package Using the Command Line
One advantage of the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer is the capability of running via the command line. This allows for automating the sequencing of applications which do not require any special customizations in their guidelines or "recipes" for sequencing. The upgrading of a package can also be automated using the command line sequencer. The…
New KB: Supported command line options for the Microsoft App-V 4.5 Management Server installer
Just a quick note that we published a new Knowledge Base article today that documents the supported command line options for the Microsoft App-V 4.5 Management Server. I’m not going to duplicate it all here but if you want to check it out see the following link: KB2384955 – Supported command line options for the Microsoft…
Microsoft Update/WSUS will not offer the App-V 4.5 SP2 update if you do not have Microsoft Application Error Reporting installed
Just a quick FYI that we just published revised detection logic for Microsoft App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2 (SP2) so that Microsoft Update/WSUS will not offer the App-V 4.5 SP2 update if you do not have Microsoft Application Error Reporting installed on the Microsoft Application Virtualization client. To install Microsoft Application Error Reporting, follow these…